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You Are Not a Before Picture: 2022’s bestselling inspirational new guide to help you tackle diet culture, finding self acceptance, and making peace with your body Hardcover – 9 Jun. 2022
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An urgent, enlightening and empowering guide to disavowing diet culture and learning to make peace with our bodies, from body confidence and anti-diet advocate, Alex Light.
When we look in the mirror, so many of us see a ‘before’ picture: the miserable person in the side-by-side shot waiting for the ‘glow-up’ (read: weight loss) that will bring true happiness. But it’s not our fault that we see our bodies as projects in need of constant work: this is just one of the beliefs that has been ingrained in us by diet culture. We have been taught to view ourselves as a collection of ‘problem’ areas for which the billion-dollar diet industry holds the solutions.
Step-by-step, You Are Not A Before Picture provides a framework for changing the way we view ourselves and the world around us. Working with experts in the fields of psychotherapy, fitness and nutrition, Alex empowers readers to interrogate their underlying beliefs, challenge the external and internal forces that are holding us back, and finally find freedom in our bodies, for good.
Alex Light was a number 4 Sunday Times Non Fiction bestseller in the w/e June 19th 2022
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHQ
- Publication date9 Jun. 2022
- Dimensions15.9 x 2.5 x 20.3 cm
- ISBN-100008507562
- ISBN-13978-0008507565
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‘A timely and passionate rally against the diet industry.’ Cosmopolitan
‘You Are Not a Before Picture sets out to dismantle dangerous dieting habits and encourage self-acceptance.’ HELLO
Book Description
2022’s bestselling inspirational new guide to help you tackle diet culture, finding self acceptance, and making peace with your body
About the Author
After struggling with various eating disorders, Alex Light transformed her beauty and fashion blog into a digital safe space to help others. In doing so, she has opened up urgently needed conversations about eating disorders, weight stigma and diet culture, and she is passionate about using her platform to encourage change. Alex has a background in fashion and beauty journalism.
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- Publisher : HQ (9 Jun. 2022)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0008507562
- ISBN-13 : 978-0008507565
- Dimensions : 15.9 x 2.5 x 20.3 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- Customer reviews:
About the author

Alex Light is a body confidence, self-acceptance and lifestyle influencer from London. After struggling from various eating disorders, Alex’s virtual platform transformed from a beauty and fashion blog into a glimpse into her personal struggles.Throughout her journey on social media, Alex has gained an expansive insight into the reality behind eating disorders, as well as weight stigma and diet culture. After a long and arduous recovery, Alex is dedicated to providing a safe space for anyone in the grips of an eating disorder or bad body image.
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By Charli S-O on 9 June 2022

Not only was it incredibly interesting, full of facts and statics that I never knew or expected, it was also written with such thought and passion. The topics within this book are extremely important to Alex and it positively shows. Her experiences and understanding of such makes her insites and advice even more powerful.
Alex has a true talent for writing and it was displayed perfectly in this book. If you only read one book this year, then it should be this.
Thank you Alex ❤️

By Beth Picken on 9 June 2022
Thank you Alex ❤️

